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Scene.— ^ Parlor, Plain furnitxire. 
Enter Zachaeiah Tittlebat, in dressing-gown and cap. 

Zachariah. Congratulate me ! My name is Zach Titttlebat ; and 
ibis happy morning, at half-past two— rather cloudy—the afore- 
said Tittlebat has been declared a father ; a father of the most 
bouncing kind— I mean the insect, which means the baby, is of 
the most bouncing kind ! That's it ! At half-past two, remember ! 
Heaven has granted my prayer, and made this Tittlebat a father ; 
I have come to announce it to you. Sh— sh ! I am the father 
of a race of Tittlebats! My first-born is in the next room, asleep 
in a cradle all covered with lace and muslin. I insisted that it 
would be a boy, every member of the family said "it would prob- 
ably be a girl." A tremendous boy ! A bouncing Tittlebat ! I 
think I can say witliout vanity, a boy who does me credit. My 
wife, who is an angel of goodness, but not very, vei-y pretty, 
gives out that the child looks like her. She has got this idea 
into her head, and, to tell you the truth, I think it an entire 
mistake ; but, I never contradict her in anything. If you could 
see my sou and heir but for one moment, his figure, his fiuely-cut 



4 TITTLEBAT A FATHER ! 

profile, his graceful moveraeuts, his uoble brow, the proud turn 
of his uose, his bine, blue eyes, you would say at once, "He is 
the image of his father." (Puts his thumbs in vest arm-holes and 
struts.) His godfather and godmother are already chosen, and 
suggestions for his name are pouring in by the dozen. In short, 
everybody is intriguing, imploring, working, for the honor of 
giving him his name. Why, there wouldn't be more noise at a 
disputed election ; and not content with baptizing him, my friends 
pretend to the gift of prophecy, and are foretelling his whole future 
career. The women say he will lead a military life, and rank as 
colonel from the very first. His godfather, with simpler ideas, 
dreams of a notary's life for him. An uncle, a manufacturer, 
wants him to be brought up in his business ; while my cousin, 
the lawyer, clamors for the legal profession. "Nothing like a 
farmer's life, ' says the grandfather, who is an agriculturist. "Be- 
lieve me," says the doctor, "the medical profession is the best 
for him." Good heavens! I'm sure I don't know what his 
calling will be twenty years hence ; don't worry me about it any 
more— all I hope is, that he will have money. His future is a 
secondary consideration in my mind. I would rather wait until 
he begins to cut his teeth before thinking of what he is fitted for. 
Besides— r t/ries heard outside)— hixWoa, what's that? What are 
those fearful cries? It's my heir waking up— he always wakes 
up like this. He will continue to cry for a whole hour, without 
an instant's cessation. Now I find this delightful, for it shows 
be has his father's lungs. The moment he sees me, his face 
lights up— but 1 don't tell his mother so, for she insists that he 
cries whenever I go near him. (Cries repeated.) There he goes 
again! Yes, you little tyrant, here I am! He thinks no one 
can compare with his father. (To the audience.) I tell you this 
in the strictest confidence. AVell, it's very natural, a fiist-boru. 
Oh, he is the exact image of me, which delights me immensely. 
What father is not pleased to see his own features reproduced in 
his son ? And the boy is doing well— the bouncing infant is doing 
well. Yes, the bouncing Tittlebat is doing well ! And so is the 
mother— of which the father is proud, that both mother and 
child are doing well. And then-bnt I am so full of happiness, 
that I forget how I must be tiring you with my own private 



TITTLEBAT A FATHER! 5 

affairs. Time seems so short, when we are talking of those we 
love ; and besides, I can't help it. One is not a father every day. 
Near this fresh and pure little creature, I feel bright and gay. I 
think I'll go and see if he has not grown while I've been here 
talking to yon. Yes, I know I have been rattling on absurdly, 
but my heart is full- so please forgive me, and allow me to invite 
you all to the christening. ( Child cries— he runs out. 



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